In the "nice words" category, Juliano has a nicely written "Java Enterprise Development - 2010 style" piece and Maksim says"GlassFish is becoming new de facto standard in Java applications. Development with new GlassFish v3 server and Eclipse now is really fast and comfortable. Server starts within a second, JEE6 is fully supported and hot code replacement works as it should.".

Sunday Nov 08, 2009

This is the first of our
weekly news catch-up
and covers Nov 1 to Nov 11, 2009.
This week the news catch-up is partial;
next week I'll create the entry through the week and will try to be more comprehensive.

Sun's Financial results for Q3FY2010 are
now available. The revenue for MiddleWare+MySQL are shown as a single entry and are (slightly) up, Year-to-Year (Y/Y); Java and OpenStorage are significantly up Y/Y; other segments are down Y/Y.
Also check the numbers for previous quarters.

Friday Oct 30, 2009

ColdFusion
(wikipedia,
product)
was first released in '95 by
Allaire
which was later bought by Macromedia
in '01 and merged into Adobe
in '05.
CF was rewritten into Java a while ago,
interacts nicely with JavaEE and with Adobe's products
and is still quite popular.

When we got serious about
GlassFish
several of us drove down to
San Jose to talk with Adobe.
Adding a new supported platform is non-trivial for a large vendor;
the question is not "does it run?" part but "is it worth setting up my testing and support team?"...
which boils down to, "do I see enough traction in my customers?".
So, I'm very pleased to point to:
ColdFusion 9 supports ... and Sun™ GlassFish.

Friday Dec 07, 2007

This interview with Ludo Champenois from the GlassFish team discusses the general developer experience with GlassFish as well as with IDEs such as NetBeans and Eclipse. We go into the save/reload paradigm for web and Ajax apps (using jMaki for instance), incremental deployment possibilities, value and role of IDEs for Java EE 5, best OS for developers, and more.

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